[ Academia ] [ Litigation ] [ Regulatory & Policy ] as a Relevant Course outside SLS for those interested in Social Science : This seminar provides a broader social context for the circumstances that can lead to crime and incarceration. It considers social determinants for aggression as well as the methods employed to modify aggressive behaviors. Students may want to take one or more courses dealing with social science perspectives on crime.

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The causes and modification of individual and collective aggression. Major issues in aggression: social labeling of injurious conduct, social determinants of aggression, effects of the mass media, institutionally sanctioned violence, terrorism, psychological mechanisms of moral disengagement, modification of aggressive styles of behavior, and legal sanctions and deterrence doctrines.

Course Style: A Substantive course teaches the law, theory, and policy in a particular area of law